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Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton answers a reporter's question during a press conference on May 10 at the Columbia Police Department. Burton was discussing the recent incident in which a SWAT entered a Columbia residence while serving a search warrant. SWAT officers shot and killed a pit bull inside the residence. The wife and child of the warrant's defendant were both inside the residence at the time the SWAT team entered.

How do people talk about race? Awkwardly, passionately, shockingly, angrily and hopefully. People shared their stories at a forum about race and diversity in mid-Missouri as well as in separate interviews.

Kagan would bring diversity to the Supreme Court's way of thinking, says an MU Law School Professor. "It's not really ideologically charged," Richard Reuben said. "It's not a nomination that's going to make the other side mad."

Stan Kroenke of Columbia is trying to purchase the remaining 60 percent share of
the St. Louis Rams. However, NFL rules prohibit cross-ownership, and Kroenke already owns the NBA's Denver Nuggets and the NHL's Colorado Avalanche.

Representatives of several charities spoke out against Gov. Jay Nixon and some Republic senators who are trying to limit the amount of annual tax credits to increase money brought in for education and other government programs.